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- March 1994
- Case
Materials Technology Corp.
By: Clayton M. Christensen
Materials Technology Corp. (MTC) is an MIT-based start-up company that identified an initial product market for its advanced materials-processing technology using conventional market research techniques. While pursuing that market--advanced microelectronic... View Details
Keywords: Marketing Strategy; Technology; Markets; Product Development; Innovation and Management; Electronics Industry; Electronics Industry; United States
Christensen, Clayton M. "Materials Technology Corp." Harvard Business School Case 694-075, March 1994.
- January 1990
- Case
Rio Bravo Electricos, General Motors Corp. (Abridged)
By: James E. Austin
Austin, James E. "Rio Bravo Electricos, General Motors Corp. (Abridged)." Harvard Business School Case 690-041, January 1990.
- October 1996 (Revised January 1998)
- Case
Sony Corporation: Car Navigation Systems
By: John A. Quelch
In the summer of 1996, Masao Morita, president of Sony Personal Mobile Communication Co., contemplated how to formulate its multinational marketing strategy for the fast-changing car navigation systems market. Morita needed to resolve the conflicting views within his... View Details
Keywords: Geographic Location; Marketing Strategy; Product Launch; Standards; Mobile and Wireless Technology; Conflict and Resolution; Auto Industry; Auto Industry; Japan
Quelch, John A., and Yoshinori Fujikawa. "Sony Corporation: Car Navigation Systems." Harvard Business School Case 597-032, October 1996. (Revised January 1998.)
- January–February 2013
- Article
Will Our Partner Steal Our IP?
By: Willy C. Shih and Jyun-Cheng Wang
This fictionalized case looks at the spillover of intellectual property (IP) from a critical component supplier to an original equipment maker in the Chinese auto industry. What are the challenges to holding on to proprietary know-how when a customer wishes to use... View Details
Keywords: Intellectual Property Management; Intellectual Property; Auto Industry; Auto Industry; China; Taiwan
Shih, Willy C., and Jyun-Cheng Wang. "Will Our Partner Steal Our IP?" Harvard Business Review 91, nos. 1/2 (January–February 2013): 137–139.
- April 2009
- Teaching Note
Apple's Core (TN)
By: Noam T. Wasserman and Lisa Brem
Teaching Note for [809063]. View Details
- July 1990 (Revised October 1997)
- Case
Siemens Electric Motor Works (A) (Abridged)
By: Robert S. Kaplan
Explores how a cost system can help support a firm's decision to change strategies. In the process, the students are introduced to a simple activity-based cost system. Siemens Electric Motor Works found itself facing an increasingly competitive environment and so made... View Details
Keywords: Activity Based Costing and Management; Cost Accounting; Cost; Adoption; Cost vs Benefits; Management Analysis, Tools, and Techniques; Production; Business Strategy; Electronics Industry; Electronics Industry
Kaplan, Robert S. "Siemens Electric Motor Works (A) (Abridged)." Harvard Business School Case 191-006, July 1990. (Revised October 1997.)
- December 2006 (Revised August 2013)
- Teaching Note
Hexcel Turnaround -- 2001 (A), (B) and (C)
By: Paul W. Marshall
This is the teaching note that is supplemental to the Hexcel Cases A, B & C. View Details
- September 2005 (Revised February 2007)
- Supplement
Angels and Devils: Best Buy's New Customer Approach (B)
Elberse, Anita, John T. Gourville, and Das Narayandas. "Angels and Devils: Best Buy's New Customer Approach (B)." Harvard Business School Supplement 506-008, September 2005. (Revised February 2007.)
- July 1998 (Revised January 2009)
- Case
Display Technologies, Inc. (Abridged)
By: H. Kent Bowen and Jonathan West
Display Technologies, Inc. (DTI) is a new joint venture between Toshiba and IBM Japan that is manufacturing the most advanced form of flat panel displays. With success in achieving significant production volumes, DTI has been asked to double its output as quickly as... View Details
Keywords: Joint Ventures; Decision Choices and Conditions; Leadership Style; Production; Outcome or Result; Performance Capacity; Strategy; Hardware; Electronics Industry; Electronics Industry; Japan
Bowen, H. Kent, and Jonathan West. "Display Technologies, Inc. (Abridged)." Harvard Business School Case 699-006, July 1998. (Revised January 2009.)
- September 1991 (Revised January 1992)
- Case
Allegheny Ludlum: Research and Engineering Resource Allocation
By: Dorothy Leonard-Barton and Geoffrey K. Gill
Allegheny Ludlum's (AL) technical vice president, Jack Shilling faces the task of determining how to allocate engineering resources among five areas of technology. AL's technology organization has great strategic importance and has therefore been untouched by the... View Details
Keywords: Engineering; Resource Allocation; Information Technology; Policy; Leadership; Decisions; Competency and Skills; Projects; Joint Ventures; Strategy; Electronics Industry; Electronics Industry
Leonard-Barton, Dorothy, and Geoffrey K. Gill. "Allegheny Ludlum: Research and Engineering Resource Allocation." Harvard Business School Case 692-027, September 1991. (Revised January 1992.)
- May 1973 (Revised June 1976)
- Case
Teradyne, Inc. (A)
By: Robert H. Hayes
Hayes, Robert H. "Teradyne, Inc. (A)." Harvard Business School Case 673-111, May 1973. (Revised June 1976.)
- April 1998
- Teaching Note
WESCO Distribution, Inc. TN
By: Das Narayandas
Teaching Note for (9-598-021). View Details
- April 1997
- Teaching Note
Tweeter etc. TN
By: John T. Gourville and George Wu
Teaching Note for (9-597-028). View Details
- January 1989
- Teaching Note
The World VCR Industry, Teaching Note
By: David B. Yoffie
Teaching Note for (9-387-098). View Details
- 01 Dec 2013
- News
Curing Health Care
The occasion? The company, a leading supplier of cloud-based services for electronic health records (EHR), practice management, and care coordination, was expanding. In a big way. Founded in 1997, athenahealth now serves about 44,000... View Details
- 02 Feb 2010
- First Look
First Look: Feb. 2
complex organizational patterns that emerge in lieu of genuine mirroring when actionable transparency allows people to "break the mirror." Download the paper: http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/10-058.pdf Criminal Recidivism after Prison and View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 16 Jan 2014
- Research & Ideas
Resolving Patent Disputes that Impede Innovation
rules tend to be surprisingly nebulous, especially considering the precise technical specifications of the patents at hand. In part because of the potential profits at stake, SEPs have been at the center of several recent multibillion-dollar lawsuits that impede View Details
- 23 Oct 2019
- News
A Bid for the Future
tax and regulatory climate, outstanding talent, workforce development.” Over the course of nearly eight years, the Louisiana Economic Development agency’s efforts attracted companies that included IBM, CGI, CSC (now General Dynamics IT), and View Details
- 01 Mar 2004
- News
Ron Shaich’s Café Society
sandwiches on its own bread. We spent the next two years traveling the country attempting to understand the changes occurring in our industry and concluded that, like so many others, the food industry was... View Details
- 29 Jun 2015
- HBS Case
Consumer-centered Health Care Depends on Accessible Medical Records
deliver this extra-added value service." Electronic Health Records Promoted In 2014, health care spending in the United States exceeded $3 trillion and was expected to reach $4.5 trillion by 2020. To reduce health care costs and... View Details